<html>
	<head>
		<title>P4Eclipse Getting Started</title>
		<link rel="STYLESHEET" href="book.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" type="text/css" />
	</head>
	<body>
	
		<h2>Welcome</h2>
		<p>
			Welcome to <b>P4Eclipse</b>, the Perforce Team Provider for Eclipse. This project
			is hosted at <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/p4eclipse">
			http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/p4eclipse</a>.
		</p>
		<p>
			To get started, please read the sections below, and follow the links.
		</p>

		<h2>Getting Started</h2>

		<p>
			P4Eclipse allows you to perform the most common operations against Perforce from
			within Eclipse. To get started, you first need to have a project within your workspace
			that is connected to the Perforce Depot.
		</p>
		<div>
			<ul>
				<li>
					If your project exists in the Perforce repository, but is not currently in your local workspace, 
			    		you need to <a href="PerforceOperations.html#CheckoutProject">checkout as project</a>
				</li>
	    			<li>
					If your project exists in the Perforce repository and in your local workspace, 
					you need to <a href="PerforceOperations.html#ConnectExistingProject">share 
					your project</a>
				</li>
	    			<li>
					If your project is only in your local workspace, and not yet in the Perforce repository, 
			    		you need to <a href="PerforceOperations.html#ShareNewProject">share a new project</a>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</div>

		<p>
			Once you have a project to work with, the <span class="menu">Team</span> and <span class="menu">Compare</span> entries on the context
			menu of the files in that project, will give you access to normal Perforce operations, such as 
			<a href="PerforceOperations.html#AddToSourceControl">Add to Source Control</a>, 
			<a href="PerforceOperations.html#OpenForEdit">Open for Edit</a> and
			<a href="PerforceOperations.html#CompareOperations">Compare operations</a>.  
			You might also look at the <span class="menu">Window->Preferences->Team->Perforce</span> pages. These will
			enable you to control many of the features P4Eclipse has.
			
		</p>

		<p>
			For further information about P4Eclipse, please read the <a href="PerforceOperations.html">help</a>
			or visit the <a href="http://p4eclipse.sourceforge.net/tiki/">wiki</a>.
		</p>	    
	</body>
</html>